The Carnegie Mellon Institute for Software Research International (ISRI) is part of the School of Computer Science

Carnegie Mellon School of Computer Science

The School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA is a leading private school for computer science established in 1965. It has been consistently ranked among the top computer science programs over the decades. U.S...

 at Carnegie Mellon University

Carnegie Mellon University

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 in Pittsburgh

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

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, Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania

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, USA

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Its research and education focus is on software systems, which spans not only classical software engineering

Software engineering

Software Engineering is the application of a systematic, disciplined, quantifiable approach to the development, operation, and maintenance of software, and the study of these approaches; that is, the application of engineering to software...

 but also topics such as economics

Economics

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, social

Social

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 and organization

Organization

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al issues, public policy

Public policy

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, and privacy

Privacy

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ISRI is a distinct entity from the Software Engineering Institute

Software Engineering Institute

The Carnegie Mellon Software Engineering Institute is a federally funded research and development center headquartered on the campus of Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. SEI also has offices in Arlington, Virginia, and Frankfurt, Germany. The SEI operates...

 (SEI), which is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Defense

United States Department of Defense

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and does not offer educational programs.

Doctoral Programs

• PhD Program in Software Engineering
• PhD Program in Computation, Organizations, and Society

Professional Masters Programs

• Master of Software Engineering
• Master of Science in Information Technology (MSIT) in eBusiness Technology
• Master of Science in Information Technology (MSIT) in Very Large Information Systems

External links

• Official website